He was also a prospective candidate for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the 2023 Czech presidential election, but withdrew as he failed to gather enough signatures.
In his memoirs from the 1970s, he wrote that "I welcomed the international aid of the USSR and other socialist countries in August 1968 with enthusiasm and relief.
Soon after the entry of the troops, immediately after the parents managed to establish contact, I started working as a writer of articles, reports and notes for the Vltava radio station.
In 1980, he defended his candidate's dissertation "Social Consciousness and Contemporary Ideological Struggle" at the University of Political Affairs of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Department of Marxism–Leninism).
He then lectured on philosophy at Charles University and held senior positions in the Socialist Youth Union.